"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Good news from a far country." -Proverbs 25:25 [KJV] From a far country, indeed; for it is no less distance than from heaven to earth, and from beings as opposite as holiness and sin could make-even from God to man, from a rich Saviour to poor sinners! And so remote that had not this good news been sent, heaven must have remained at an eternal distance, as an inaccessible region! And what is the good news itself?  The angels who were first sent to proclaim it, called it g lad tidings of good things , of great joy to all people. And indeed, such glad tidings it contains, as language fails to describe. It is pardon, mercy, and peace to poor rebels. It holds forth joy, happiness, and everlasting felicity to poor sinners, enemies, and the fallen race of men. God revealed; sin atoned; Satan conquered; death destroyed; hell vanquished; heaven opened ! And these not all. This good news informs also of the stupendous way by which the blessings are given, and everlasti...

"After the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life." -Hebrews 7:15, 16 [KJV] We may say of the life which the Lord Jesus lives in the courts of heavenly bliss that it is a threefold life. There is, first, His eternal life, by which I mean the eternal life of God in His divine nature. This He lives in Himself; for "as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself"   (John 5:26) . He is hereby "Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."  And this life is the foundation of all His acts of mediation, as being God over all, blessed for ever. But there is a life which He lives for Himself, viz. a life of inconceivable glory in His human nature. This is the life which He laid down that He might take it again. This life is the cause of, and is attended with all that ineffable ...

"Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace." -Hebrews 13:9 [KJV] The doctrines of grace are streams which flow from the Fountain-Head, the covenant of grace. They all lead to Jesus, the Surety of the covenant. All doctrines that oppose the covenant-engagements of the Holy Trinity, for the salvation of sinners, are diverse, and strange doctrines. They direct to a different hope than Christ, and lead souls from the truth, as it is in Him. With these diverse and strange doctrines, men may evidence great zeal for holiness and good works, while they have rooted enmity against the leading truths and capital doctrines of the gospel.  Who talk more of holiness, and contend more for good works, than Arians and Socinians, and yet deny the proper deity of Christ? So many of another cast, carry their notions of holiness and perfection to the greatest height; yet vehemently oppose the doctrines of ...